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1/7.  Our Col offered me rum & I refused, he said are you a TT laddie, he could not persuade me to take it

[Aug. 30]

I was sent down to BN last night at 10.30 as BN runner, our saps are full of mud & water from BN to BDE & all over, it is over the knees.  Our boys had to retire & we have suffered heavy, I was up to the dressing stn & there is some pitifull sights.  Cpl Gillman, A. Winsor & Tim long got killed (old mates).  I am running messages right up to the belly in water & over dead, & the saps are being shelled.

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